Erection date: 1987
Greater London Council
Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, 1833 - 1912, father of lawn tennis, lived here.
SW1, St George's Square, 33
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Walter Clopton Wingfield
Invented, developed and patented by Wingfield. The Wimbledon championships b...
Born at Rhysnant Hall, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Served in the 1st Dragoon Guar...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Walter Clopton Wingfield
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
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Destroyed in the Great Fire, rebuilt by Wren, badly damaged in WW2, restored 1968. Its name is explained by its location which used to be on/near two streets: Paternoster Lane, now College Hill, an...
Chemist. Born Penzance. Wrote "Researches, Chemical and Philosophical". Discovered potassium, sodium, barium, strontium, etc. Invented the safety lamp for coal miners.
On the committee of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919.
These listed buildings are now used by the Royal Foundation of St. Katharine. Up until the bombs of 7 September 1940 there was a church ...
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